Dale Crover

Dale Crover
Crover as he appeared in Modern Drummer Magazine.
Background information
Birth Name	Dale Crover
Alias	Daledoe, Dale C.
Born	23 October 1967
Occupation	Musician, Composer, Engineer, Producer
Genres	Sludge, Grunge, Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, Experimental, Alternative Rock
Instrument(s)	Drums, Bass, Guitars, Piano, Vocals
Years active	1983 - Present
Labels	Sub Pop, Boner, Amphetamine Reptile Records, Ipecac, Neurot, Atlantic, Joyful Noise, Man's Ruin, Valley King
Associated acts	Melvins, Altamont, Porn (The Men Of), Shrinebuilder, Crystal Fairy, OFF!, Nirvana, Fecal Matter, Redd Kross

Dale Crover is a musician originating from Washington. He is best known for his tenures with Nirvana and Melvins among a host of other bands. He is regarded as a highly influential drummer. He would be listed in 2016 as #69 of Rolling Stone's "Top 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time" and ranked at #13 on Spin Magazine's Top 100 Alternative Drummers of all time (between Primus' Tim Alexander and Slayer's Dave Lombardo).

Biography

Nirvana and Fecal Matter

In late 1985, Crover played bass in Fecal Matter, a band he formed with Kurt Cobain and Greg Hokanson. After Hokanson left the band, Cobain and Crover recorded Illiteracy Will Prevail on a 4-track on Easter 1986 at Cobain's aunt's home in Seattle, Washington. Crover played bass and drums on the demo. "Spank Thru" from this demo appears on the Nirvana album Sliver: The Best of the Box. Fecal Matter disbanded in 1986.

Crover drummed on Nirvana's ten-song demo recorded 23 January 1988 at Reciprocal Recording Studios in Seattle. Nine of these songs have been officially released:

• "Floyd the Barber", "Paper Cuts", and "Downer" – Bleach
• "Beeswax", "Downer", "Hairspray Queen", "Mexican Seafood", and "Aero Zeppelin" – Incesticide
• "If You Must" and "Pen Cap Chew" – With the Lights Out

Nirvana with Crover played a 14-song show in Tacoma, Washington, on the night of the same day that they did the demo session. Three cuts from the show – "Downer", "Floyd the Barber", and "Raunchola"/"Moby Dick" – appear on With the Lights Out. Later in 1988, Crover and Melvins' bandmate Buzz Osborne relocated to San Francisco, California.

Crover briefly rejoined Nirvana during a short west-coast tour with Sonic Youth in August 1990. In April 1991, Crover drummed on a demo version of "Drain You" with Cobain on guitar and vocals and Dave Grohl on bass guitar. The track appears on With the Lights Out.

Though Crover would not be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Nirvana, he would be in attendance for Nirvana's induction on 10 April 2014.

Melvins

• For more details, feel free to view the Riffipedia page on Melvins.

Crover would join the Melvins in 1984 after founding drummer Mike Dillard would leave the band. In 1985, C/Z Records was created to document the Washington music scene upon which the label would release Deep Six, featuring the Melvins alongside Malfunkshun, Green River, Soundgarden, U-Men and Skin Yard. In 1986 the band released their official debut relase on C/Z in the form of Six Songs. The album was recorded live to a two track at the now closed Ironwood Studio in Seattle on 8 February 1986. Eventually Six Songs would be expanded on into what is described as a "Bogus LP" by Osborne as 10 Songs in 1991. The Melvins would tour in 1986 with RKL in what Buzz said "Wasn't a very good idea.".

In October 1986 The Melvins recorded Gluey Porch Treatments at Studio D in Sausalito, California. The album was released in 1987 on Alchemy Records and is considered a landmark in the Sludge sub-genre. Not long after the release of Gluey Porch Treatments, Osborne and Crover would relocate to San Fransisco, California and recruit Lori Black (Clown Alley; Daughter of film icon Shirley Temple.) while Lukin stayed in Washington to join Mudhoney. Sometime after the band's relocation they would record and ultimately release Ozma in 1989.

Not long after Lorax's departure, Joe Preston would quit Earth to join The Melvins, being an avid fan of the band with his first performance with the band being on May 9, 1991 in Portland, Oregon. The Melvins then released three "solo" EPs following the concept and imitating the cover artwork inspired by the four Kiss members' solo albums released in 1978. King Buzzo, Dale Crover, and Joe Preston (Joe's in particular being heavily drone-based, likely a precursor to Thrones.) were all released in 1992 on Boner Records. Notably the band would also record a single entitled Night Goat and release it in 1992, beginning a long-standing relationship with Tom Hazelmyer's Amphetamine Reptile Records. Later in 1992, they released the full-length album Lysol, focusing heavily on a drone-based sound with half the album being covers. Eventually the album had to be renamed Melvins because Lysol was a trademarked name.

When Nirvana's Nevermind became a massive success, the Melvins were one of many groups to benefit from Nirvana's support. They were signed by Atlantic Records, and their first major label release, 1993's Houdini, entered the Billboard Heatseekers chart at 29. Due to its experimental nature, the Melvins took their next album, Prick, to Amphetamine Reptile Records. Record label conflicts prevented the band from releasing any records under the name "Melvins", so the album was released with the band name written in mirror as "Snivlem" though the album is acknowledged as one of their full-lengths. Later that year, The Melvins released their second album for Atlantic in 1994, Stoner Witch.

They returned to Atlantic one last time for 1996's Stag, which entered the Heatseekers chart at number 33. The band was eventually dropped by Atlantic Records that same year. Around the same time Amphetamine Reptile Records put out a single every month featuring oddities and covers by the band, culminating in the compilation Singles 1-12. The band signed with Amphetamine Reptile Records and released their next full-length album, Honky, in 1997. Costing $3000 and recorded in six days, it turned out to be revered as one of their most experimental efforts.

In 1998, Kevin Rutmanis would join the band after Deutrom was fired. The Melvins would record a multitude of albums in the next couple of years in the beginnings of a long-standing partnership with Mike Patton's label Ipecac, notably the trilogy (1999's The Maggot and The Bootlicker along with 2000's The Crybaby which featured multiple guests such as J.G. Thirlwell, Hank Williams III, Kevin Sharp, David Yow, Bliss Blood and Tool to name a few.). Colossus of Destiny, a live show from 1998 was intended to be the third part of the trilogy, ended up being put aside in favor of the guests album though it was released in 2001. Around the same time as the trilogy recordings the band would work with Mike Kunka for an album but this album would not be finished or released until 2016 when Kunka approached the band to finish the album. Electroretard would come out around the same time in 2001 on the now-defunct Man's Ruin Records, featuring re-recordings, covers and two of the songs from the Interstellar Overdrive EP.

In April 2002, The Melvins would release Hostile Ambient Takeover and tour heavily in support of it throughout 2002 and 2003. Rather than a proper vinyl release the seven songs making up the album were released as a series of seven 7" vinyls. In 2004, Osborne and Crover toured to celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band, and also released an art book Neither Here Nor There. The book is a collection of art by creators of their cover art as well as friends of the band, and also contained retrospectives on the past twenty years of the Melvins. The book included a CD with selected tracks from their albums. The same year The Melvins would also release an album with Lustmord entitled Pigs of The Roman Empire and an album with Jello Biafra entitled Never Breathe What You Can't See.

In early 2006, Crover confirmed rumors of the members of the band Big Business joining the Melvins. The initial plan was to get bassist Jared Warren but opted to recruit drummer Coady Willis as well. Commenting on adding another drummer, Crover said this about Big Business drummer Coady Willis: "He's left-handed, so we want to do this 'mirror image' type of thing. We've kind of fused our two drum sets together, and we're going to try and do some crazy thing with it. We're sharing these big toms in between us."

The first show with the "Double-Drum" lineup was on 6 September 2006 at The Library in Sacramento, California. The band toured the U.S. in the fall of 2006 in support of their recent album, (A) Senile Animal. Following frequent touring, In July 2008, their new album entitled Nude with Boots was released. In December 2008, along with Mike Patton, the Melvins co-curated an edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties Nightmare Before Christmas festival. They chose half of the lineup and also performed themselves. A third album by this lineup in The Bride Screamed Murder saw release on 1 June 2010. It ended up being their first album to chart on the Billboard 200.

The Melvins started 2011 with a series of unique shows entitled Spaceland Residency. Four of the shows were every Friday at Spaceland in California. January 7 featured the current line-up playing Colossus of Destiny, Lysol, and Eggnog. Jan 14 featured a Melvins 1983 set followed by the band playing Houdini. Jan 21 featured a two-piece Melvins set followed by the current lineup playing Bullhead. Jan 28 featured the band playing a normal set followed by Stoner Witch. This would eventually lead to the Endless Residency tour in 2011 where the band performed the four albums and eventually do the same tour in Europe in 2013.

The Melvins also have a lineup called Melvins Lite (Buzz, Dale, and Trevor Dunn) that toured through parts of 2011, performing songs with double bass including a handful of songs not typical in a Melvins setlist. This line-up released an album entitled Freak Puke on 15 June 2012 on Ipecac Recordings. The four-piece lineup remained active as well and released a digital EP, The Bulls & The Bees, in March on Scion A/V (With a vinyl edition via Amphetamine Reptile).

In 2012, the Melvins Lite completed a record-breaking tour, having performed every night for 51 straight days, once in each of the 50 United States and once in Washington D.C., billed as 51/51. The tour started on September 5 in Anchorage, Alaska and ended in Honolulu, Hawaii 25 October 2012.

Everybody Loves Sausages, an album of cover songs performed with special guests (Such as Scott Kelly, J.G. Thirlwell, Mark Arm, Jello Biafra and HAZE XXL to name a few.), was released by Ipecac on 30 April 2013. The same year, the Melvins would release Tres Cabrones, an album featuring original drummer Mike Dillard in what would be his first appearance on an official Melvins full-length while Crover would play bass.

In 2013, the Melvins marked 30 years as a band with an extensive summer tour supported by Honky with Die Kreuzen and Negative Approach also appearing at select dates. Grunge pioneers Mudhoney also joined the band for two shows on the 30th Anniversary tour. On 31 July 2014, the band announced the album, Hold It In, with a release date of 14 October 2014. The lineup for this album was Osborne and Crover joined by Paul Leary and Jeff Pinkus of the Butthole Surfers.

On 9 March 2015, Hellsmore Media & Idlehanz Media Productions officially launched a kickstarter for the Melvins documentary Colossus of Destiny: A Melvins Tale on 13 March 2015. The Kickstarter campaign proved to be a success as backers raised $98,953 of the intended $75,000 goal. The documentary features multiple people associated with the Melvins and of course the band themselves. Initial screenings of the documentary began in 2016. In November 2015 the band released Across the USA in 51 Days: The Movie, a tour diary/documentary of the Melvins' 51/51 tour with one minute of footage in each city the band performed.

On 10 September 2015, the band announced they would finally be releasing their collaboration with GodheadSilo's Mike Kunka, Three Men and a Baby, on 1 April 2016 through Sub Pop. The album, started in 1999 and shelved, was recently finished. They will also be releasing Basses Loaded on 3 June 2016 which will feature a rotating cast of bass players including regulars Dale Crover (With Mike Dillard), Jared Warren (With Coady Willis), Jeff Pinkus and Trevor Dunn as well as Steven McDonald (of Redd Kross), and Krist Novoselic (of Nirvana).

A Walk With Love and Death would be released on Ipecac on 7 July 2017. Featuring Steven McDonald on bass and a host of guests, The disc entitled "Death" will be a conventional Melvins album while "Love" will be the soundtrack score to a Jesse Nieminen directed, self-produced short. An 80+ date North American tour would be announced alongside Spotlights and later a headlining spot at Desertfest Belgium. Some weeks later a full tour of Europe and Australia with Redd Kross was announced for the months of October and November, with Crover and McDonald performing with both bands.

On 12 February 2018, The Melvins would announce a brand new studio album released on 20 April entitled Pinkus Abortion Technician with a USA tour spanning through May and then July and August to follow. A tour of Europe for that October and November was later announced as well. For the 2018 live shows the band would utilize both bassists. The Melvins would tour frequently in 2019, along with releasing several extended plays through Amphetamine Reptile Records. On 13 November 2020 a new album would be announced in Working With God, featuring the Melvins 1983 lineup and released on 26 February 2021. Notably this would be the longest gap between Melvins albums. An acoustic double album in Five Legged Dog would follow that October.

Altamont

Altamont would be founded in 1994. According to drummer Joey Osbourne, he would meet Dale Crover through Dan Southwick and Lori S. of Acid King and expressed interest in forming a band together. Notably, Crover would give Osbourne a set of double bass pedals that he would use for both Acid King and Altamont. Some time after forming the trio of Crover, Southwick and Osbourne would record at Big Rehab Studio in San Francisco with Billy Anderson and Aaron Nudelman, Dead or Alive would see release via Man's Ruin Records on 29 May 1997. In the Fall of 1997 the band would tour the West Coast with Acid King.

Recording in 1998 with Billy Anderson and featuring a cover of "Ezy Rider" by Jimi Hendrix, Civil War Fantasy on 9 October 1998, followed by a string of shows with Black Oak Arkansas and Honky. The band also participated in showcases for Man's Ruin and Small Stone Records. The band would contribute a cover of "Make It" by Aerosmith for the Small Stone Records tribute album Right in The Nuts - A Tribute to Aerosmith, released in 2000. Altamont would tour with Acid King and Honky in 1999 and join up with Core and Porn (The Men Of) for a string of Fall shows in 2000.

A second Altamont album, recorded by Tim Green and featuring covers of Mose Allison and Johnny Thunders, Our Darling would see release on 15 May 2001 via Man's Ruin, one of the final releases on the label. The band would play occasional shows in California, along with a 2003 West Coast tour with Melvins.

In 2005 Toshi Kasai would join the band as a second guitarist and record a third album with the band, in what would be the first produced album of The Deaf Nephews, comprised of Kasai and Crover. The Monkee's Uncle would see release on 1 November 2005 via AntAcidAudio to positive reviews of the likes of AllMusic, SF Weekly, LA Weekly, Billboard and AntiMusic among others.

Following a string of shows with Jello Biafra and The Melvins to support The Monkee's Uncle, Altamont would play occasional shows and in 2010, record new material. Altamont would sign with Valley King Records as part of a re-issue campaign. Notably the band would also release a 7" of a new song and a cover of "Transmaniacon AC" by Blue Öyster Cult, notably featuring a guest drummer in Coady Willis (Big Business) and artwork in Alan Forbes. Mrs. Creech would see release on 2 November 2005, with a release party at Bender's Bar in San Francisco with Frehley's Vomit and an art presentation of Alan Forbes and Junko Mizuno.

Valley King Records would release all three albums on picture disc vinyl, along with two split 7" picture discs in 2016. The band's activity is largely unknown, with Crover eventually forming The Dale Crover Band in 2016 along side several solo releases in conjunction with Joyful Noise Records.

Shrinebuilder

• For more details, feel free to view the Riffipedia Page on Shrinebuilder.

Crover would join Shrinebuilder in early 2008 when their original drummer Chris Hakius (Asbestosdeath, Sleep, The Sabians, Om) retired from playing music. Shrinebuilder was a supergroup comprising of Crover, Al Cisneros (Sleep, Om), Scott Weinrich (The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, etc.) and Scott Kelly (Neurosis). Over the next year the band sent audio files to one another, refining their material, and rehearsed when possible in various configurations of two or three in Baltimore, San Francisco, Ashland and Los Angeles.

In January 2009 the full band met together for the first time to set about recording the material they had previously sketched out. Kelly documented the recording sessions via his blog site "We Burn Through The Night". A majority of the writing process was done by the respective members sending files to each other over a period of time. The debut record was recorded in three days, with Crover and Toshi Kasai (Collectively known as The Deaf Nephews) as producers.

Shrinebuilder was released in October 2009. Following the album's release, the band announced a string of concerts, and the first Shrinebuilder track, "Pyramid Of The Moon," was added to the band's Myspace page On November 11, 2009, Club My War arranged and hosted the band's first live show in the United States with two performances at The Viper Room. A short string of dates followed that year.

Shrinebuilder largely toured in 2010 whenever each member’s schedules had allowed, beginning with a west coast tour of the United States in 2010 leading up to Scion Rock Fest. Whilst unable to fly over to Europe to tour during the Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption of April 2010, the band returned to LA and completed the writing stage of their second record after a surprise show in New York. According to Scott Kelly their flight to the venue was literally missed by six hours at the time of the volcanic eruption . Two tours of Europe would follow in it's wake. One year later the band performed on the main stage at the 16th Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands which they had been previously set to appear at had there been no hindrance in schedule. This ended up being their final live performance.

In a June 2016 interview composed at Hellfest, Dale Crover briefly spoke about his tenure in Shrinebuilder, describing how he got in the band and a mention as to why the band isn't active anymore.

Solo Releases and The Dale Crover Band

In 1995, Crover would release a solo 7" entitled Drumb via Man's Ruin Records, comprised of drums and noise. This, along with the Dale Crover EP, would be his only solo releases for years.

In 2014 Crover would release two 7" releases: United Fruit which was released on 4 September 2014 via Amphetamine Reptile and Big Uns / Shame on You which was a split with Qui and released the same day via Joyful Noise Recordings. Notably United Fruit would feature guests in Kevin Rutmanis (Cows, Melvins) and Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr.).

Crover would begin collaborating with Joyful Noise for several unique releases. The first of which, Skins, would be released on 26 August 2016. Skins would be limited to 127 hand-made copies on custom-designed lathe-cut records. Each copy hand-numbered and signed by Dale Crover.This one-of-a-kind "12-Sided Record" features six spindle holes, each corresponding to 12 short songs written by Dale Crover specifically for this distinctive format. Designed meticulously by Mike Dixon, each of the 127 copies of 'Skins' were hand-made using a 1942 Presto 6N record lathe, and signed by Dale Crover. It would be referred to by the label as a "12-sided record".

In 2017 it would be revealed that Dale Crover had been working on a solo album for years and would release it via Joyful Noise on CD and Vinyl. The Fickle Finger of Fate would see release on 4 August 2017, with a music video made for "Bad Move". The Fickle Finger of Fate would see positive reviews from several publications such as Pitchfork, Punknews, and Metal Assault among others. Crover's band would tour with Redd Kross in 2018 to support The Fickle Finger of Fate.

On 27 October 2017 Joyful Noise would notably release a single for Thunder Pinky. It would be a 6.9" Cymbal Record, limited to 127 hand-made copies as a Lathe-cut, solid brass record-cymbal hybrid. Each copy would be packaged in screen-printed jackets, hand-numbered and signed by Dale Crover. To promote this unique 7", Crover would show off how it could be latched onto a drum kit and the single playing on a conventional record player, before promptly throwing it in the trash.

A follow-up to The Fickle Finger of Fate would be recorded in 2019 with the lineup of Steven McDonald on bass, Mindee Jourgenson (ModPods, Dangerously Sleazy) on drums, Toshi Kasai on keyboards and Crover on guitar and vocals, among other instrumentation. However, the CO-VID19 Pandemic would delay the release of the album. Joyful Noise would however release Piso Mojado on 27 May 2020, a “five sided record” with a custom lathe-cut design features four spindle-holes, and five corresponding songs. Each record is hand-made and signed while packaged inside a thick, custom designed acrylic jacket.

Rat-a-Tat-Tat! would see release on 15 January 2021 to positive reviews. A music video would be made for "I Can't Help You There".

Other Bands and Appearances

Dale Crover made an appearance in Neil Young's video Harvest Moon playing Neil Young. This was largely due to his physical resemblance of the younger Young.

Crover would be a recurring producer and contributor for the stoner rock band Acid King through the 1990s, when he was married to Lori S. at the time. Notably, Crover would write the song "Divorced" for the 2000 Melvins album The Crybaby in reference to the end of their marriage.

Crover on occasion would serve as a live drummer for Fantômas, an avant-garde metal group that typically featured Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, etc.), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Melvins, etc.), Dave Lombardo (Slayer) and Melvins bandmate Buzz Osborne. Notably in 2000 both the Melvins and Fantômas performed as a joint collective known as The Fantômas Melvins Big Band, which in turn would lead to a live album in Millennium Monsterwork 2000, released 1 April 2002. The same collective would also perform a string of shows in Europe, leading to the release of the DVD Live From London 2006, released on 26 August 2008.

Beyond the collaborative shows, Crover would fill in on drums for Fantômas while Lombardo would be busy performing with Slayer (And later The Misfits and Suicidal Tendencies), notably 2014 shows in South America and a 2017 show as direct support for Tool.

Crover is also credited as the drummer on most of the tracks on Mike Patton's Peeping Tom project from 2006.

Crover would join Porn (The Men Of) in the Fall of 2003 to help with the band's third album, along with performing as a live drummer. Wine, Women and Song would see release on 16 November 2004 to positive reviews. A tour would be proposed for 2004 with Melvins through Europe but would be canceled.

Following a 2005 North American tour to support the album, Porn would go on an extensive tour with Melvins and Big Business, also while embarking on their first tours of Europe in 2007 and 2008. Recording on a fourth album would take place in 2006, collaborating with Japanese noise legend Merzbow. ...And The Devil Makes Three would be released via Truth Cult on 8 September 2008.

Crover (Along with Coady Willis) would fill in as the drummers for Unsane on their 2012 tour with Melvins, when Unsane's drummer Vinnie Signorelli would be out with illness.

Crover would fill in for the New Orleans rock and roll band Eyehategod on 27 October 2013 at Housecore Horror Fest, the band's first show following the death of their longtime drummer Joey LaCaze. Notably the band would perform the Melvins song "Easy As it Was", which they covered on We Reach: The Music of The Melvins.

Crover would also fill in as a drummer for the hardcore punk band OFF!, mainly for a tour in 2014, followed by various shows in 2016 and 2018.

Hew Time would be founded in 2013 by Joe Plummer (Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse, The Shins) who had an idea to record an all percussion record inspired by Max Roach's M'BOOM (1979). Crover and Coady Willis would join in the project, with Crover speaking about it and stating the following: "The project started with Joe Plummer. He turned Coady and myself on to a Max Roach record called M'Boom. Originally Joe's idea was to cover that record. I convinced him that it would be impossible to do so, and we should take M'Boom as a creative influence on our own thing. So here it is. Hew Time!"

Recording in LA and signing with Joyful Noise Recordings, the eponymous Hew Time would see release on 25 March 2014. A follow-up in Seconds would see release in 2016, featuring six unreleased songs as a triple 7" set, with each member etched on the b-side of each 7".

Crover would be a recurring contributor to Conan Neutron and The Secret Friends, with Conan Neutron and Tony Ash. The project was founded in Oakland, California circa 2015 by Vocalist/Guitarist/Songwriter Conan Neutron and intended as a vehicle for his songwriting. Crover would contribute to several singles and three studio albums: The Enemy of Everyone (2015), The Art of Murder (2016) and Dark Passengers (2020). Crover would largely contribute as a studio musician but would perform live with the band on occasion.

Crystal Fairy would be founded in 2016. The project stemmed from the Melvins' Hold It In Tour with Le Butcherettes in 2015, ending each night with Teri Gender Bender (Real name Teresa Suárez) joining the band to sing "Fascists Eat Donuts" by the Pop-o-Pies and "Rebel Girl" by Bikini Kill. At one Le Butcherettes show during a subsequent tour, Buzz and Dale joined the band to do "Rebel Girl". At some point there were talks of making a Melvins lineup with Teri and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez but ultimately choosing to make it a new band entirely, something Buzz said "deserved to have its own identity.". On 10 October the band released a 7" entitled Necklace of Divorce via Amphetamine Reptile Records featuring two songs from the self-titled album. Right before the 7" release, AmRep put the song "Drugs on the Bus" on their YouTube page.

On 9 December 2016 the band announced the first string of shows (Which would later be canceled due to "scheduling conflicts".) for the new band along with the album cover and release date for the project's debut album, both set for late February 2017. Ipecac would also debut the song "Chiseler" on their YouTube channel and BandCamp. On 17 December it was announced that Crystal Fairy would be performing at the 2017 edition of Psycho Las Vegas along with The Melvins (Though this would be canceled due to "scheduling conflicts".). Crystal Fairy's self-titled (and only) album was released on 24 February 2017 via Ipecac.

Crover would join the alternative rock band Redd Kross on their 2017 tours (Performing with both Redd Kross and Melvins) and by November he would be drumming for the band full time. Crover had first met Steven McDonald performing with OFF! and while they had known each other prior, would hit it off to which McDonald would join The Melvins and in turn Crover would join Redd Kross.

On 23 August 2019 Beyond the Door would see release on Merge Records, the first album with Crover on drums. The albums included eight new songs and covers of "The Party" from Blake Edwards 1968 film of the same name written by Henry Mancini and a version of Sparks 90's dance hit, "When Do I Get to Sing 'My Way'". The album featured appearances from Buzz Osborne, Gere Fennelly, and Josh Klinghoffer, and composing credits for Anna Waronker and Kim Shattuck. The band would tour North America with Melvins in 2019 and would be intended to tour Europe in 2020 but would cancel due to The CO-VID19 Pandemic.

Bands

• Melvins - Drums, Vocals (Bass in Melvins 1983) (1984 - Present)
• Fecal Matter - Drums, Bass (1985 - 1986)
• Nirvana - Drums (1988, 1990)
• Altamont - Guitar, Vocals (1994 - ?)
• Fantômas - Drums, Vocals (Live) (2000, 2005 - 2009, 2012 - 2014, 2017)
• Porn (The Men Of) - Drums, Vocals (2003 - ?)
• Shrinebuilder - Drums, Backing Vocals (2008 - 2011)
• Unsane - Drums (Live) (2012)
• Eyehategod - Drums (Live) (2013)
• OFF! - Drums (Live) (2014, 2016, 2018)
• Hew Time - Drums (2013 - 2014)
• Broken Bat - Drums (2015)
• Conan Neutron and The Secret Friends - Drums (2015 - Present)
• Crystal Fairy - Drums (2016 - 2017)
• Redd Kross - Drums (2017 - Present)
• Dale Crover Band - Guitar, Drums, Bass, Vocals (2017 - Present)

Discography

Melvins (Selected Discography)

• Gluey Porch Treatments (1987, Alchemy Records)
• Ozma (1989, Boner Records)
• Bullhead (1991, Boner Records)
• Lysol (1992, Boner Records)
• Houdini (1993, Atlantic)
• Prick (As Snivelem) (1994, Amphetamine Reptile Records)
• Stoner Witch (1994, Atlantic)
• Stag (1996, Atlantic)
• Honky (1997, Amphetamine Reptile Records)
• The Maggot (1999, Ipecac Recordings)
• The Bootlicker (1999, Ipecac Recordings)
• The Crybaby (2000, Ipecac Recordings)
• Electroretard (2001, Man's Ruin Records)
• Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002, Ipecac Recordings)
• Pigs of The Roman Empire (With Lustmord) (2004, Ipecac Recordings)
• Never Breathe What You Can't See (As Jello Biafra with The Melvins) (2004, Alternative Tentacles)
• (A) Senile Animal (2006, Ipecac Recordings)
• Nude With Boots (2008, Ipecac Recordings)
• The Bride Screamed Murder (2010, Ipecac Recordings)
• Freak Puke (As Melvins Lite) (2012, Ipecac Recordings)
• Everybody Loves Sausages (2013, Ipecac Recordings)
• Tres Cabrones (As Melvins 1983) (2013, Ipecac Recordings)
• Hold It In (2014, Ipecac Recordings)
• Three Men And A Baby (As Mike and The Melvins) (2016, Sub Pop Records)
• Basses Loaded (With Various Bassists) (2016, Ipecac Recordings)
• A Walk With Love and Death (Double Album) (2017, Ipecac Recordings)
• Pinkus Abortion Technician (2018, Ipecac Recordings)
• Working With God (As Melvins 1983) (2021, Ipecac Recordings)
• Five Legged Dog (Double Album) (2021, Ipecac Recordings)
• Bad Mood Rising (2022, Amphetamine Reptile Records)
• The Devil You Knew, The Devil You Know (EP) (2023, Amphetamine Reptile)
• Tarantula Heart (2024, Ipecac)

Solo Discography

• Drumb (Single) (1995, Man's Ruin Records)
• United Fruit (Single) (2014, Amphetamine Reptile Records)
• Big Uns / Shame On You (Split With Qui) (2015, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Skins (EP) (2016, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• The Fickle Finger of Fate (Studio Album) (2017, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Tiny Dirt / I Hear An Echo (Split with Deerhoof) (2017, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Bad Move / Why Not? (Single) (2017, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Thunder Pinky (Single) (2017, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Piso Mojado (8" Lathe EP) (2020, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Swiss Triplets (7" Flexi Single) (2020, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Christmas Time Is Here (7" Single) (2020, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Rat-a-Tat-Tat! (Studio Album) (2021, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• TBA (Studio Album) (2024, Joyful Noise Recordings)

Nirvana

• Bleach (Drums on "Floyd The Barber", "Paper Cuts" and "Downer") (1989, Sub Pop)
• Incesticide (Drums on "Beeswax", "Downer", "Mexican Seafood", "Hairspray Queen" and "Aero Zeppelin") (1992, DGC)
• With The Lights Out (Drums on six tracks) (2004, Geffen)
• Sliver: The Best of the Box (Selected tracks) (2005, DGC)

Altamont

• Wanted Dead or Alive (split album with Acid King) (1997, Man's Ruin Records)
• Civil War Fantasy (1998, Man's Ruin Records)
• Our Darling (2001, Man's Ruin Records)
• The Monkees' Uncle (2005, AntAcidAudio)
• Mrs. Creech (2013, Valley King)
• Gotards / Junkie (Split with Honky) (2016, Valley King)

Hew Time

• Hew Time (2014, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Seconds (2016, Joyful Noise Recordings)

Shrinebuilder

• Shrinebuilder (2009, Neurot)
• L•i•v•e (2011, My Proud Mountain)

Conan Neutron and The Secret Friends (Selected Discography)

• The Enemy of Everyone (2015, Seismic Wave)
• The Art of Murder (2016, Seismic Wave)
• Dark Passengers (2020, Learning Curve Records)

Redd Kross

• Notes And Chords Mean Nothing To Me (Single) (2017, Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Beyond The Door (Studio Album) (2019, Merge Records)
• Escape From LA (Split 10" with Melvins) (2019, Amphetamine Reptile Records)

Selected Guest Appearances and Other Releases

• Spilth *!% ‎ - Maximum Pity - Producer (1994, Urban Warfare)
• Acid King - Acid King - Additional Vocals on "The Midway"; Producer (1994, Sympathy For The Record Industry)
• Acid King - Down With The Crown - Engineer, Producer (1997, Man's Ruin Records)
• Acid King - Busse Woods - Gong, E-bow, Whip (1999, Man's Ruin Records)
• Hank Williams III - Risin' Outlaw - Drums (1999, Curb Records)
• Los Natas - Ciudad de Brahman - Piano, Guitars, Producer (1999, Man's Ruin Records)
• The Obsessed - Incarnate - Drums on "On The Hunt" (1999, Southern Lord Records)
• The Obsessed - The Obsessed / The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight - Drums on "On The Hunt" (2001, Southern Lord Records)
• Porn (The Men Of) - Wine, Women and Song... - Drums (2004, Small Stone Records)
• Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom - Drums (2006, Ipecac)
• Porn With Merzbow - ...And The Devil Makes Three - Drums, Timpani (2008, Truth Cult)
• Tweak Bird - Tweak Bird - Guitar, Producer (With Toshi Kasai) (2008, Souterrain Transmissions)
• Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown - Drums (2009, Domino)
• Totimoshi - Avenger - Guest on "Intro" and "Snag" (2011, At A Loss Recordings)
• Indian Handcrafts - Civil Disobedience For Losers - Drums on "Centauri Teenage Riot" and "Bruce Lee" (2012, Sargent House)
• Qui - Life, Water, Living... - Backing Vocals (2014, Cobraside Distribution)
• Honky - Maid In China - Drums (2015, Valley King Records)
• Sons Of Huns - While Sleeping Stay Awake - Drums on "Philosipher's Stone" (2015, RidingEasy Records)
• Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger - Drums on "Diversion" (2016, Drag City)
• Low Flying Hawks - Kōfuku - Drums (2016, Magnetic Eye Records)
• Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy (2017, Ipecac)
• Low Flying Hawks - Anxious Ghosts - Drums (2019, Magnetic Eye Records)

External Links

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